We are scanning our network of 70 odd systems. After a scan, when we pull the list of installed applications, we see that the softwares which were uninstalled from user's systems are still showing up in the report.

Is there any way we can purge the complete list from Spiceworks's database and rebuild the list ?

P.S. - We have tried to delete and clean the inventory by doing a "delete one or more devices" from the inventory tab. But, this hasn't helped us.

Any help would be greatly appreciated as the software report is of great value to us in remaining compliant from the licensing point of view.

LOL! I do......It fixes so many scanning problems for me. I feel compelled to share it with the world.

I didnt think it would have been as deep as you have detailed. I guess that raises a question for me then, when you disable incremental does that force a completely new scan? or will it still have some nuances like the ones being explained here?

I didnt think it would have been as deep as you have detailed. I guess that raises a question for me then, when you disable incremental does that force a completely new scan? or will it still have some nuances like the ones being explained here?

When you disable incremental scanning I think it would force a new scan every time so ye most of the time it would work but it would take alot longer to run the scan.

It would also though Keep any software not linked to a machine, so by cleaning the database as above it will get rid off all software ready to pick it up again

As per your suggestion, I have tried complete procedure as mentioned above & tested on one machine. Scan is working fine but not picking up the softwares. Message display in software section " Still gathering Software information ".

We tried out both Mike's and your suggestions but we get the same results. Since this setup is still under testing, we uninstalled and did a fresh re-install of Spiceworks. However, the problem of ghost entries still persist. Software which don't show up in the Add / Remove programs after a complete uninstall still show up in the software report.

Infact, the same machine (central) is showing up in the software report twice !! Take a look at he screenshot to see what we mean.